Company Announcement: Abcourt Files Preliminary Short Form Prospectus For New Issue of Units

Mr. Renaud Hinse, President and Chief Executive Officer of Abcourt Mines Inc. announced today that it has filed a preliminary short form prospectus in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Québec

Company Announcement: VISTA’s TruckLogic haul truck operator training program wins Suncor President’s Award

Suncor Energy recently awarded its training department and VISTA Training Inc. one of eight coveted President’s Operational Excellence Awards for the implementation of the innovative TruckLogic haul truck operator training curriculum at its oil...

Flaherty's Budget leaves mining industry mostly smiling

Canada Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Thursday announced another year’s extension to the 15% tax credit for investing in mineral exploration, much to the delight of the industry. Also pleasing to resource developers, in a Budget that placed...

Vista secures more port allocation

ASX- and TSX-listed Coalspur has been awarded an additional five-million-tons-a-year port capacity for its Vista coal mine, in Canada. The additional tonnage takes the miner’s total export capacity to 13.5-million tons a year.

Takeover completed, Grande Cache to delist from TSX soon

Calgary based Grande Cache Coal said on Thursday its C$1-billion acquisition by Hong Kong-listed and Japan’s Marubeni Corporation had closed. The company, which owns coal mines in west-central Alberta, said its shares would be delisted from the...

NT proves top Australian investment destination for minerals

Australia Northern Territory has been ranked the most attractive state in the country for mineral exploration and development by the Fraser Institute, which named Canada’s New Brunswick as the single best jurisdiction in the world for mining....

Drilling contractor targets growth

A returning exhibitor to the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) event is global specialty drilling contractor company Energold Drilling Corp.

The future’s so bright . . .

Mining investment in Canada could surpass $138-billion in new private sector investment over the next five years, Mining Association of Canada (MAC) VP government affairs Paul Hébert tells Mining Weekly. These investments will create thousands of...

The long walk to economic freedom

As is the case across the globe, Canadian mining firms face the challenge of ensuring greater participation in their activities by indigenous communities. In Canada the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) serves as the national political...

SA improves in global mining ranking – survey

South Africa ranked 54th out of 93 global mining jurisdictions in this year’s Survey of Mining Companies, compiled by Canada’s Fraser Institute. This compared with South Africa’s 67th place out of 79 jurisdictions last year. South...

Fraser Institute poll names New Brunswick most attractive mining jurisdiction

New Brunswick has snatched the title as the most attractive jurisdiction to explore for minerals and build mines in the Fraser Institute’s yearly survey, jumping from last year’s position of twenty-third to beat Alberta. Of the 93...

Northern Dynasty sees consortium of majors developing Pebble as permitting approaches

The massive, and equally controversial, Pebble project in Alaska will most likely be developed by a consortium of major mining firms, a spokesperson for Northern Dynasty, the 50% owner, said this week. The TSX-listed company, which has Rio Tinto...